JavaScript tweening engine for easy animations

Super simple, fast and easy to use tweening engine which incorporates optimised Robert Penner's equations.

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Download the minified library and include it in your html. Or use the unminified version for better debugging.

<script src="js/tween.min.js"></script>

npm install tween.js

Then use browserify or your npm tool of choice, or just include the module using the standard node require:

var TWEEN = require('tween.js');

You're an advanced user, so find your way around.

bower install [email protected]:sole/tween.js.git

or install an specific tag (it's just git tags, you can run git tag for a list):

bower install [email protected]:sole/tween.js.git#r13

And reference either the minified file:

<script src="bower_components/tween.js/build/tween.min.js"></script>

or the unminified file

<script src="bower_components/tween.js/src/Tween.js"></script>

The following code creates a Tween which will change the x attribute in a position variable, so that it goes from 50 to 400 in 2 seconds. We'll use requestAnimationFrame to call TWEEN.update so that "time ticks", the tween gets updated and the onUpdate method makes things happen on the screen:

	init();
	animate();

	function init() {

		var output = document.createElement( 'div' );
		output.style.cssText = 'position: absolute; left: 50px; top: 300px; font-size: 100px';
		document.body.appendChild( output );

		var tween = new TWEEN.Tween( { x: 50, y: 0 } )
			.to( { x: 400 }, 2000 )
			.easing( TWEEN.Easing.Elastic.InOut )
			.onUpdate( function () {

				output.innerHTML = 'x == ' + Math.round( this.x );
				var transform = 'translateX(' + this.x + 'px)';
				output.style.webkitTransform = transform;
				output.style.transform = transform;

			} )
			.start();

	}

	function animate(time) {

		requestAnimationFrame( animate ); // js/RequestAnimationFrame.js needs to be included too.
		TWEEN.update(time);

	}

Note: this corresponds to the example 04_simplest.html that you can find in the examples folder.

Have a look at that folder to discover more functionalities of the library, or read the user guide!

Also, Jerome Etienne has written a tutorial demonstrating how to use tween.js with three.js, and it's also great for understanding how tweens work!

Finally, if you need to use tweens in C/C++ code, you now have an option! Check out libtween which is a port of tween.js to C by jsm174!

2014 06 15 - r14 (5,798 KB, gzip: 2,168 KB)

• Include license header on the minified files too (hyandell)
• Make examples more efficient by using requestAnimationFrame's own timer instead of calling Date.now again (Robert Eisele)
• Make it explicit that you can install tween.js with npm and bower (sole)

2014 05 05 - r13 (5,765 KB, gzip: 2,149 KB)

• Add Tween.onStop (colinsullivan)
• Fix _reversed yoyo flag bug (deanm)
• Initial version of docs/user guide (sole)

2013 11 03 - r12 (5,697 KB, gzip: 2,131 KB)

• Fix bug with cached tweens.length value inside update() loop (freestlr)
• Move assets and all examples and stuff to use the gh-pages branch, so things are always properly updated (sole).
• Fix bug where chained tweens were not stopped if the previous tween had been stopped, under certain circumstances, by fundon
• Use tweens in C/C++ with libtween by jsm174!

2013 08 10 - r11

• Add yoyo functionality: tweens can bounce back to their original value when finished (benjamind)
• Make tween.js an official npm module (sole) (hint: npm install tween.js)
• Bring node.js compatibility back! (benjamind)
• Bring IE shim back! (sole)
• Tween only strings, arrays or numbers (JAStanton)

2013 03 03 - r10 (5,342 KB, gzip: 2,010 KB)

• Added the ability to tween using relative values with to() (endel)

2013 02 04 - r9 (5,224 KB, gzip: 1,959 KB)

• Use window.performance.now() if available for even smoother animations (tdreyno, mrdoob and sole)
• Added tween.repeat() (sole)
• Improve example_01 performance (mrdoob)
• Use CONTRIBUTING.md instead of having the section on README.md (sole)

2013 01 04 - r8 (4,961 KB, gzip: 1,750 KB)

• New Date.now() shim by roshambo makes the lib compatible with IE
• Fix for checking undefined duration (deanm)
• Add unit tests (sole)
• Fixed non-existing properties sent in to and ending up as NaN in the target object (sole)
• Add missing example screenshot (sole)
• Add CONTRIBUTING section in README (sole)

2012 10 27 - r7 (4,882 KB, gzip: 1,714 KB)

• Fixed start time of chained tweens when using custom timing. (egraether)
• TWEEN.update() now returns a boolean (tweens pending or not). (mrdoob)
• Added tween.onStart(). (mrdoob)
• tween.chain() now accepts multiple tweens. (mrdoob)

2012 04 10 - r6 (4,707 KB, gzip: 1,630 KB)

• Returning instance also in .chain(). (mrdoob)
• Refactoring and code clean up. (egraether)
• Simplified easing formulas. (infusion)
• Added support to arrays in .to() using linear, catmull-rom or bezier .interpolation(). (egraether)
• Removed autostart/stop. (mrdoob)
• Renamed EaseNone, EaseIn, EaseOut ane EaseInOut, to None, In, Out and InOut. (mrdoob)
• Made .to() values dynamic. (egraether and jeromeetienne)

2011 10 15 - r5 (4,733 KB, gzip: 1,379 KB)

• Add autostart/stop functionalities (jocafa and sole)
• Add 07_autostart example demonstrating the new functionalities (sole)

2011 10 15 - r4

• Use Date.now() instead of new Date.getTime() as it's faster (mrdoob)

2011 09 30 - r3

• Added new time parameter to TWEEN.update, in order to allow synchronizing the tweens to an external timeline (lechecacharro)
• Added example to demonstrate the new synchronizing feature. (sole)

2011 06 18 - r2

• Added new utility methods getAll and removeAll for getting and removing all tweens (Paul Lewis)

2011 05 18 - r1

• Started using revision numbers in the build file
• Consider this kind of an stable revision :-)

How do you set a tween to start after a while?

Use the delay() method: var t = new TWEEN.Tween({...}).delay(1000);

Is there a jQuery plug-in?

No, we like to keep it simple and free of dependencies. Feel free to make one yourself, though! :-)